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Understanding 9/11xvi, 249 pages : 22 cm
Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. He discusses measures in our own time - when space travel presents to humankind a direct encounter with the unfathomable measure of the universe
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index
Introduction : measure and meaning -- Body and measure -- Science and measure -- Defining the revolutionary metric system -- The decisive separation -- Anglo-Saxon resistance -- Measures of pure conception
Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. He discusses measures in our own time - when space travel presents to humankind a direct encounter with the unfathomable measure of the universe
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index
Introduction : measure and meaning -- Body and measure -- Science and measure -- Defining the revolutionary metric system -- The decisive separation -- Anglo-Saxon resistance -- Measures of pure conception
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The original books is too bright.
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